Quotes About Influence

A mother is a school. Empower her; and you empower a great nation.

She became a very famous, very popular young girl. Before that, she was my daughter, but now I'm her father.

When you have a good mother and no father, God kind of sits in. It's not enough, but it helps.

When I was growing up, my mother would take me to plays and museums, and we'd talk about life. Those times helped shape who I became.

My mother was my beauty icon my whole life.

I was hanging out with some of what my mother would consider the wrong kind of kids. With no direction, no motivation. I would hang out in the lunchroom all day, or the handball courts

One of the oddities about being Judy Garland's daughter was that everyone treated my mother with such awe that they would never have asked me the normal questions kids get about their moms.

Our mothers give us so many gifts. They give us the precious gift of life, of course, but they also leave treasured lessons that can guide us along our journeys even when they are no longer with us.

The fact of simultaneously being Christian and having as my mother tongue Arabic, the holy language of Islam, is one of the basic paradoxes that have shaped my identity.

My mother wanted me to be her wings, to fly as she never quite had the courage to do. I love her for that. I love the fact that she wanted to give birth to her own wings.

And my daddy could play a harmonica and also the guitar, so I guess I got a little bit from both of 'em, but I think mostly from my mother's side of the family.

The mob is the mother of tyrants.

My father was frightened of his mother. I was frightened of my father and I am damned well going to see to it that my children are frightened of me.

Language is the mother, not the handmaiden, of thought; words will tell you things you never thought or felt before.

My father was also a principal of a school and mother was a curriculum advisor. Both were educators.

Geniuses are just people who had good mothers.

Women are aristocrats, and it is always the mother who makes us feel that we belong to the better sort.

The mother tongue is propaganda.

My mother was a huge influence on me. She was a living example of what a Christian should be. Her conviction, her discipline. She would rather see other people happy than herself.

My mother is a professor of early childhood education. When I was two she would say she knew I was going to be an actor.

I'm extremely blessed to have the extraordinary mother that I have, and I don't mean Diana Ross, I mean the mother. My mom paved a road that didn't exist, as did Oprah.

Fashion has always been in my life, thanks to my mother and my aunt growing up. I think as I became an adult, my style evolved, and my love of fashion evolved even more.

Land monopoly is not only monopoly, but it is by far the greatest of monopolies; it is a perpetual monopoly, and it is the mother of all other forms of monopoly.

My mother was the making of me. She was so true and so sure of me, I felt that I had someone to live for - someone I must not disappoint. The memory of my mother will always be a blessing to me.